Francis Johnson
Deceased Person
1795 – 1876
Who was Francis Johnson?
Francis Johnson was a linguist who taught Sanskrit, Telugu and Bengali at the East India Company College between 1824 and 1855. He compiled a comprehensive Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, which he published in 1852.
As a young man he travelled to Rome and Athens with Charles Lock Eastlake and Charles Barry and others, returning to England in 1824.
A nonconformist, he funded the construction in 1829 of a Congregationalist chapel at Hertford Heath, and its subsequent operation.
He also published
Johnson, Francis. Hitopadesa. The Sanskrit Text of the First Book, or Mitra-Labha; with a Grammatical Analysis, Alphabetically Arranged. Prepared for the Use of the East-India College, by Francis Johnson, Professor. London: James Madden and Co. Successors to Parbury and Co., 8 Leadenhall Street, 1840.
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